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Once a year, doctors travel to Rwanda to perform lifesaving surgery on people with damaged heart valves — a disease caused by untreated strep throat.
The year’s most powerful storm, which left a deadly trail in the Philippines, scored a near-direct hit on Hong Kong and Macau before churning across China’s southern coast.
Now a tropical depression, Florence has killed at least 16 people so far, and North Carolina officials expect the crisis to continue for many days.
After writing a shelf of books mining forgotten incidents and obscure lives, the Harvard scholar and New Yorker writer offers history on a grand scale.
Kipchoge is considered to be one of the greatest long-distance runners ever, and he broke the previous record by more than one minute.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 12, 2018, covering September 16, 2018.
Eminem
Travis Scott
Drake
Troye Sivan
Ariana Grande
2018James Burdette Thayer, American brigadier general (born 1920)[†]
James Burdette Thayer was an American brigadier general who served on active duty during World War II. On May 4, 1945, Thayer and his platoon discovered and liberated 15,000 people held at a concentration camp near Wels, Austria. Following the war, he continued his service in the United States Army Reserve. In his civilian life, Thayer founded a successful business supply company in Beaverton, Oregon. He was later appointed Oregon's civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army and then re-activated as commander of the Oregon State Defense Force. The Oregon Military Museum at Camp Withycombe is named in his honor.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]